Novosibirsk City Hall refused to allow Yabloko to hold an anti-war picket

The administration of Novosibirsk refused to accept the notification of the Yabloko party about holding anti-war pickets to collect signatures against Russia's participation in the war in Syria. This was reported on the party's website with reference to the activist of the Novosibirsk branch of "Yabloko" Kirill Maryin.

According to Maryin, he turned to the deputy head of the Committee for Interaction with the Administrative Bodies of the Mayor's Office, Sergei Polyansky, to file a notice about holding an anti-war picket on July 13 and 14. Polyansky refused to accept the application due to the fact that fifteen minutes remained before the end of the working day, and called the activists "defenders of ISIS." The conversation was recorded on a dictaphone, the activist claims, and published .

“Without fifteen, I have no right to make decisions. Are you here? What are you working for? ISIS? <...> In a good way, or now it will be very serious, and very sorry. Now the FSB will take care of you! Insolent. <...> And now I’ll put the guards in **** her ... ”the person says on the record. The chairman of the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, Svetlana Kaverzina, also confirmed to the TOP54 portal that Sergey Polyansky's voice sounds on the recording.

In Krasnoyarsk, a similar event was under threat. According to the website of the party, with reference to the deputy chairman of the regional branch Alexander Kolotov, on July 7 and 9, the head of the department for work with the population and public self-government of the administration of the Leninsky district of Krasnoyarsk Svetlana Silaeva demanded that the organizers remove the symbols of the party and the image of Grigory Yavlinsky, otherwise they would not hold the event. Kolotov noted that Silaeva is also the chairman of the territorial election commission of the Leninsky district from United Russia. “Thus, we can talk about deliberate obstruction of the political activities of the Yabloko party, guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal law, by a member of the ruling party, an overly politically biased and biased chairman of the TEC,” the site quotes the words of the deputy chairman of the branch.

Previously, Yabloko was no longer allowed to hold anti-war pickets in Tambov and Saratov. The refusal of the Tambov administration stated that "the holding of such events violates the equality of citizens planning to participate in the presidential election as candidates." Officials recommended that the organizers "eliminate the discrepancy between the purpose of the planned event and the current legislation."

In Saratov, police officers came to three Yabloko pickets as part of the same action and demanded that the cubes be removed, since "the event is illegal." Anti-war pickets were held in the city without problems for seven days, but on the eighth day, administration officials unexpectedly found violations of the law in the notifications, the Saratov edition of Svobodnye Novosti reported , citing local Yabloko activist Ilya Kozlyakov.